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Apply for integration assistance for adults with disabilities or for minors with physical, mental or sensory impairments

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  • Service description

    Integration assistance services are intended to enable people with significant disabilities to participate fully in all areas of social life.

    Integration assistance benefits are divided into 4 benefit groups:

    • Medical rehabilitation services
    • Benefits for participation in education
    • Benefits for participation in working life
    • Benefits for social participation

    Among other things, the services can help you to cope with the tasks of daily life. This may include the following integration assistance services, for example:

    • Living
    • Finances
    • Household management
    • Leisure activities
    • Promotion of private contacts and hobbies
    • Visits to public offices (preparation and support), if not the task of a legal carer
    • Mobility
    • Parental assistance
    • Support at school, university or for further training at work
    • Support in the day care centre
    • Aids
    • Promoting understanding
    • Labour
    • Special form of housing

    The services are customised.

    You will receive integration assistance benefits if you do not receive the necessary benefits from other social benefit or rehabilitation providers, for example the health insurance fund, pension insurance provider, employment agency or accident insurance provider.

    The costs for the services are borne by the responsible organisation for integration assistance. The federal states determine who is responsible for integration assistance.

    In the case of integration assistance benefits, you must always pay a contribution from your income and from your assets if they exceed a set limit. The income and assets of the person with disabilities receiving benefits and, in the case of minors entitled to benefits, of their parents, are relevant. Some benefits are exempt from contributions, for example curative education benefits, assistance with school education and benefits for social participation for beneficiaries who have not yet started school.

  • Procedure

    You can apply for integration assistance from the institution responsible for you. If you are not sure who is responsible for you, you can submit an application to any institution. This institution is obliged to forward the application to the competent institution.

    • You contact the integration assistance organisation responsible for you.
    • They will advise you or you can submit an informal application straight away.
    • The competent authority may ask you to complete a form and submit further documents.
    • The institution carries out a participation procedure, an overall plan procedure or both procedures to determine your individual need for integration assistance services and possible further participation services. You can request that a person you trust be involved in the overall planning procedure.
    • Once all the documents have been submitted, the responsible office will check whether and which benefits you will receive based on the information you provide and the needs assessment. This also includes checking whether and to what extent your income and assets are taken into account.
    • After your application has been reviewed, you will receive a decision.

  • Who should I contact?

    You must submit the application for integration assistance to the district or the independent city.

    However, you can also submit the application to your local authority or a social benefit provider. They are obliged to forward the application to the responsible office.

  • Prerequisites

    You can receive integration assistance benefits if

    • you have a disability or
    • you are at risk of disability and
    • you are significantly restricted in your daily life as a result.

    You can also apply for integration assistance for persons who represent you in the context of legal care, guardianship or as authorised representatives or custodians.

  • Which documents are required?

    • You must submit an application to the responsible office. This can be informal.
    • Please contact the office responsible for you to find out which additional documents you need to submit. The authority may ask you to use a form.

  • What fees are incurred?

    There are no costs.

  • What deadlines do I have to observe?

    If the authority was unable to provide a service that could not be postponed on time and you incurred costs for a service that you procured yourself as a result, the authority must reimburse you for these costs if the service was necessary. The same applies if the authority has wrongly refused a benefit.

  • Processing time

    The processing time for your application depends on various factors. Please contact your responsible integration assistance provider, who will be able to give you more detailed information on the duration of the procedure.

    However, the authority to which you have submitted your application must determine whether it is responsible for your application within 2 weeks of receipt of the application. If the authority is not responsible, it will forward your application to the competent body without delay. You will be informed of the forwarding.

    If the authority does not forward your application, it must determine and provide your need for support as quickly as possible.

    If an expert opinion is required to determine your needs, the authority must make a decision within 2 weeks of receiving the expert opinion.

    If the authority does not need to obtain an expert opinion, it will make a decision within 3 weeks of receiving your application.

  • Legal basis

    Special information for - Salzlandkreis district

    §§ Sections 90 ff. of the Ninth Book of the German Social Code - Rehabilitation and Participation of Persons with Disabilities (Ninth Book of the German Social Code - SGB IX)

  • Legal remedy

    • Appeal within one month of notification of the administrative act
    • Action before the social court within one month of notification of the objection notice
    • Action for failure to act at the social court

  • What else should I know?

    There are no indications or special features.

  • Further information

  • Short text

    • People who are significantly restricted by a disability or who are significantly threatened by a disability can receive support
    • Integration assistance services are intended to improve the living situation of people with (impending) significant disabilities and enable them to participate fully in society. The scope of the benefits depends on the individual needs of the beneficiaries.
    • Integration assistance services are divided into 4 groups:
      • Medical rehabilitation services
      • Benefits for participation in working life
      • Benefits for participation in education
      • Benefits for social participation
    • The services are determined according to individual needs.
    • The integration assistance providers and the counselling services of the Supplementary Independent Participation Counselling (EUTB®) offer opportunities for counselling
    • Young people with (potential) disabilities up to the age of 27 as well as their parents, guardians and legal guardians have the option of receiving counselling from the local youth welfare office.
    • Competent authorities: Integration assistance organisations

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